Monday, February 04, 2008

The Phoenix Coyotes, in anticipation of the return of Associate Coach Rick Tocchet, will hold a media availability session on Wednesday, February 6 at 1:00 p.m. The event will be held at Jobing.com Arena in the Cookman Media Lounge. All media should enter Jobing.com Arena through Gate 3.

Tocchet will be available to the media in a press conference format. The event will air live on FSN Arizona.

>> team release

Get ready for a coverage blitz, although I'm not sure there's much more to say. "Operation Slap Shot" appears to have been a figment of someone's overactive imagination, and a lot of the coverage went well overboard. (Calls for Gretzky to resign, etc.)

4 Comments:

1) With the way the Coyotes have been playing, all bets are off that Gretzky will be stepping down. At least the odds are formidable. OK, enough gambling jokes.2) That aside, we're surprised that the NHL is allowing Tochett back after this incident. Illegal gambling is a blight that is hard to forget/forgive. The sanctity of a sport can not be preserved if there is even the slightest hint that a game can be manipulated in some way3) What precautions is/can the NHL take here? If chronic gambling is a disease, as we're often told, how is one monitored to see that a 'relapse' isn't occurring. If it happened once, it can recur.

I have always maintained that the State of New Jersey was just upset because they weren't getting their cut. It seems as if governments have no problem with gambling, so long as they are the ones getting the revenue.

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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a radio and TV analyst with TSN and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.

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